Vula Telematix Enabling SA’s Drankenstein to be a Smart Municipality

South African cities and municipalities are facing pressing and complex challenges, such as providing services, including water, electricity, housing, and free Wi-Fi on limited budgets.

Inadequate housing, unreliable electricity, and water supplies are some of the major problems faced by South African cities and smaller municipalities.

However, the Internet of Things (IoT) can greatly improve the provision of public services.

IoT solutions can enable smart interactions with city services to save municipalities a lot of money and make them more efficient.

IoT also could transform the lives of residents by providing tangible solutions to many of society’s ills.

Vula Telematix, South Africa’s first IoT network operator, is working with various solution developers to establish smart municipalities across the country.

The network provider has already connected Drankenstein Municipality.

IoT is a network of intelligent devices and machines that can monitor themselves as well as gather contextual information (temperature or GPS location, for example) using sensors, and share it with other devices and services.

It sees devices and items from watches and fridges to industrial equipment and even irrigation systems at farms become connected to the Internet

Drankenstein is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality, in Paarl, Cape Town.